[Dnsmasq-discuss] Announce: dnsmasq-2.68rc 1

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Thu Nov 21 21:52:25 GMT 2013


I'm minded to make a new stable release quite soon. After the very long 
interval between 2.66 and 2.67, the final 2.67 release ended up with a 
couple of niggly bugs, and some useful changes were missed.

One of the enhancements makes slightly incompatible changes to the 
configuration of the authoritative DNS mode, so I'd like to get that out 
there before use of that new feature has ramped up.

Hence I've today put out 2.68rc1

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/release-candidates/dnsmasq-2.68rc1.tar.gz

Changelog is below. Please test if you can.


Simon.


version 2.68
             Use random addresses for DHCPv6 temporary address
             allocations, instead of algorithmically determined stable
             addresses.

             Fix bug which meant that the DHCPv6 DUID was not available
             in DHCP script runs during the lifetime of the dnsmasq
             process which created the DUID de-novo. Once the DUID was
             created and stored in the lease file and dnsmasq
             restarted, this bug disappeared.

             Fix bug introduced in 2.67 which could result in erroneous
             NXDOMAIN returns to CNAME queries.

             Fix build failures on MacOS X and openBSD.

             Allow subnet specifications in --auth-zone to be interface
             names as well as address literals. This makes it possible
             to configure authoritative DNS when local address ranges
             are dynamic and works much better than the previous
             work-around which exempted contructed DHCP ranges from the
             IP address filtering. As a consequence, that work-around
             is removed. Under certain circumstances, this change wil
             break existing configuration: if you're relying on the
             contructed-range exception, you need to change --auth-zone
             to specify the same interface as is used to construct your
             DHCP ranges, probably with a trailing "/6" like this:
             --auth-zone=example.com,eth0/6 to limit the addresses to
             IPv6 addresses of eth0.

             Fix problems when advertising deleted IPv6 prefixes. If
             the prefix is deleted (rather than replaced), it doesn't
             get advertised with zero preferred time. Thanks to Tsachi
             for the bug report.




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